Hacker News: quadrige

First Look at Firefox Nova

quadrige — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:18:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/firefox/exklusiv-so-sieht-das-neue-nova-design-von-firefox-aus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308094

Points: 3

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Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off

quadrige — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:53:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/872489/mozilla-firefox-ai-features-off-button

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861391

Points: 1

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HP to Acquire Parts of Humane for $116M

quadrige — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:03:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-18/hp-116-million-deal-for-humane-includes-ip-but-no-ai-pin-device

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43095699

Points: 46

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Canva acquires Affinity to fill the Adobe-sized holes in its design suite

quadrige — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:41:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112277/canva-affinity-acquisition-design-software-suite-adobe-rival

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39826209

Points: 105

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New comment by quadrige in "Subject: Airbnb (2011)"

quadrige — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 16:35:00 +0000

Yes, and then a casual "there's a lot to like"...

The Boring Company’s Chicago project seems awfully cheap for something so big

quadrige — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 23:45:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/14/17464612/boring-company-chicago-elon-musk-cost-estimate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17316355

Points: 3

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Telegram is holding a secretive second pre-ICO sale

quadrige — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 07:50:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/21/17037606/telegram-open-network-app-ico-cryptocurrency-ton

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16435964

Points: 4

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Chocolate is on track to go extinct in 40 years

quadrige — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:49:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/chocolate-is-on-track-to-go-extinct-in-40-years

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16408932

Points: 2

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What isn’t Telegram saying about its connections to the Kremlin?

quadrige — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 14:58:20 +0000

Article URL: https://theoutline.com/post/2348/what-isn-t-telegram-saying-about-its-connections-to-the-kremlin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15378149

Points: 2

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New comment by quadrige in "WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without Losing Its Focus"

quadrige — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 14:35:55 +0000

Airbnb socializes the costs by transfering them to the flat owners (cleaning etc.), and Uber to the drivers (fuel, maintenance etc.)

Android 8.0’s “streaming OS updates” will work even if your phone is full

quadrige — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:56:53 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/android-8-0s-streaming-os-updates-will-work-even-if-your-phone-is-full/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14950197

Points: 9

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New comment by quadrige in "Firefox 57: new Photon design screenshots"

quadrige — Sun, 14 May 2017 19:55:24 +0000

Looks really nice

New comment by quadrige in "Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition"

quadrige — Fri, 12 May 2017 07:58:11 +0000

Fair enough; my point about the visibility of small foreign films in theaters vs on Netflix still stands though.

New comment by quadrige in "Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition"

quadrige — Fri, 12 May 2017 07:38:47 +0000

"Amélie" is by no means a small film, just take a look at Jean-Pierre Jeunet's other films' budget to get a sense of it. By small films I mean for example : - Sayônara by Kôji Fukada - Un avant-poste du progrès by Hugo Vieira da Silva - Psiconautas by Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vázquez Those are just 3 titles coming up from Allocine that launched this week in theaters. None of them will be on Netflix. Regarding the ticket price, it's indeed around 11-13 in big circuits, but around 7 in small independant theaters, so that's a reason more to encourage them.

New comment by quadrige in "Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition"

quadrige — Fri, 12 May 2017 07:15:38 +0000

>I foresee a major festival/competition for Streaming only media attended by A-list celebrities in the future.

Sounds awful, why would you restrain a festival to only one method of distribution? Cannes is certainly overrated but they focus on authors first and foremost, and that's what led them to their current position.

New comment by quadrige in "Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition"

quadrige — Fri, 12 May 2017 07:13:59 +0000

Yes it's also a giant vs small cinemas fight: some cinemas in France have 2 or 3 screens and give access to a very wide selection of films in very isolated parts of France. Netflix's catalog is a pack of shit filled with low-tier comedies from the US, and barely any really independant foreign films. As a platform, they have no point of view on the value of films and no editorial ambitions.

New comment by quadrige in "Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition"

quadrige — Fri, 12 May 2017 07:07:04 +0000

French cinema's current position in the world is mainly due to these kinds of stricts regulations, that allow small films to compete with big budget movies for the viewers' attention, and small theaters with big networks. Netflix, iTunes etc. are not just "normal" players in the film production business, they are also marketplaces fighting for distribution exclusivity, and they need to be regulated as such.

New comment by quadrige in "Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks"

quadrige — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:42:51 +0000

I love it too, excellent feature!

New comment by quadrige in "Moto 360"

quadrige — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:29:59 +0000

Yes but precisely, people are never going to mention their exact laptop name because brands like Dell choose to produce 20 variations of each laptop they create, each one harder to remember than the precedent. Apple has such a little number of portable macs (two actually: air and pro) that everyone remembers it. And they also chose a simple way to tell the difference between each iteration: the production year, as well as the screen size, which are two criterias very understandable to everyone.

It's not about what people choose to say, it's about Apple's clever naming conventions.

It’s A Wonderful Life, For A Few Of Us

quadrige — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 17:50:49 +0000

Article URL: http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/21/but-not-so-much-for-the-rest/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6947297

Points: 7

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